The Evening Standard editor Victoria Wadley is set to go if the Lebedev deal goes ahead, with all eyes now on the Tatler editor Geordie Greig to take her place. According to the Media Guardian: "Lebedev intends to make the Standard fresher and younger, and possibly more progressive, and move the paper away from the direct influence of Paul Dacre, the powerful and opinionated editor-in-chief of Ass...

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For a last instalment of the series on Geert Wilders, returning briefly to his address last Friday at the OMNI SHOREHAM in Washington, DC (CPAC), at the invitation of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Atlas Shrugs, Jihad Watch, and Dr. Andrew Bostom. Atlas has posted a video (below) showing the main speeches. Read a complete account of the evening on Atlas. Be sure not to miss the video, containi...

Has the recent purchase of The London Evening Standard given its contributors and editors carte blanche to dump its previous owner The Daily Mail Group in the shit? Emma Duncan (deputy editor of The Economist) writes in today’s London Evening Standard about the BBC and the DEC Gaza appeal. My belief that Mr Thompson was right is

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The Evening Standard will today launch an ad campaign apologising to Londoners for being such a bunch of vindictive, out of touch, snotty-nosed, misery-bags. The move follows research commissioned by the paper's new editor which shows that Londoners would overwhelmingly prefer to burn in hell than ever read their grotty rag again. According to Standard and Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade: "The m...

This post could turn a bit Glenda Slaggish. Earlier today I praised the Evening Standard - well, maybe not the whole paper, just it's Deputy Political Editor, Paul Waugh. Let me now slag it off. On page 26 of today's paper, it carries a news article on the Israeli elections. This is the headline above it... ISRAELIS GO TO POLLS TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THREE WARMONGERS What a disgrace. It's a...

I’ve been doing a bit of number crunching. In the three weeks before the departure of editor Veronica Wadley from the Evening Standard the paper’s stories about Boris Johnson broke down as 61% positive, 27% neutral and 12% negative. And in the three weeks after her departure? They were 43% positive (down 18%), 22% neutral (down